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<a name="gtk-migrating-tooltips"></a>Migrating from GtkTooltips to GtkTooltip</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
    GTK+ 2.12 brings a completely new tooltip implementation which
    allows many things that were not possible with the old 
    <a class="link" href="GtkTooltips.html" title="GtkTooltips"><span class="type">GtkTooltips</span></a> interface. The new possibilities are explained
    in more detail in the section about <a class="link" href="GtkTooltip.html" title="GtkTooltip"><span class="type">GtkTooltip</span></a>. 
  </p>
<p>
    A number of complications of the old API have been removed:
    </p>
<div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc">
<li><p>
        Tooltips can not be grouped anymore. The old tooltips
        API allowed this by using multiple <a class="link" href="GtkTooltips.html" title="GtkTooltips"><span class="type">GtkTooltips</span></a> objects.
        We believe that the timeout behaviour of the new tooltips 
        implementation is better and makes it unnecessary to use 
        grouping as a way to overcome shortcomings of the 
        fast-tooltips mode.
      </p></li>
<li><p>
        Timeouts can not be set individually anymore. Instead
        there are settings <a class="link" href="GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-tooltip-timeout" title='The "gtk-tooltip-timeout" property'><span class="type">"gtk-tooltip-timeout"</span></a>, 
        <a class="link" href="GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-tooltip-browse-timeout" title='The "gtk-tooltip-browse-timeout" property'><span class="type">"gtk-tooltip-browse-timeout"</span></a> and
        <a class="link" href="GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-tooltip-browse-mode-timeout" title='The "gtk-tooltip-browse-mode-timeout" property'><span class="type">"gtk-tooltip-browse-mode-timeout"</span></a> to influence
        the behaviour of tooltips globally.
      </p></li>
</ul></div>
<p>
  </p>
<p>
    Here is an example of setting a tooltip on a widget with the old API:
    </p>
<div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting">
GtkTooltips *tooltips = gtk_tooltips_new ();     
gtk_tooltips_set_tip (tooltips, widget, "Some tips", NULL);
    </pre></div>
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  </p>
<p>
    Using the new tooltips API, it is no longer necessary to create 
    an object:
    </p>
<div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting">
gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text (widget, "Some tips");
    </pre></div>
<p>
  </p>
<p>
    Similarly, setting a tooltip on a <a class="link" href="GtkToolItem.html" title="GtkToolItem"><span class="type">GtkToolItem</span></a> gets
    simplified from
    </p>
<div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting">
gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip (toolitem, toolbar-&gt;tooltips, "tool tip", NULL);
    </pre></div>
<p>
    to
    </p>
<div class="informalexample"><pre class="programlisting">
gtk_tool_item_set_tooltip_text (toolitem, text);
    </pre></div>
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